The local space context of Ulan Bator as this registry holds it — the catalogued human footprint on the ground around it, the orbits that can pass overhead, and the geostationary belt seen from here.
| position | 47.908° N, 106.883° E | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
|---|---|---|
| population | 844,818 inhabitants | GeoNames (geonames.org) — CC BY 4.0 |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sainshand meteorological rocket station | 418 km SE (142°) | 44.890° N, 110.140° E | gcat-sites |
| Drovyanaya, Chitinsk oblast' | 594 km NE (45°) | 51.500° N, 113.000° E | gcat-sites |
| Aginskiy Test Range (247 MP Tsugol) | 707 km ENE (58°) | 51.016° N, 115.424° E | gcat-sites |
| Yasnaya missile base, Chita Oblast | 727 km ENE (60°) | 50.800° N, 115.900° E | gcat-sites |
| Jiuquan Space Center, Nei Monggol Zizhiqu, China | 899 km SW (218°) | 41.310° N, 100.310° E | gcat-sites |
| Jilantai Missile Test Ground, Nei Monggol province | 902 km S (187°) | 39.850° N, 105.580° E | gcat-sites |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long March 2F/G | Shenzhou 24 | 933 km SW (216°) | 40.958° N, 100.291° E | launchlibrary |
| Zhuque-3 | Flight 2 | 938 km SW (217°) | 40.920° N, 100.251° E | launchlibrary |
| site | distance · bearing | position | source layer |
|---|---|---|---|
| METEORIT | 440 km NE (38°) | 50.950° N, 110.780° E | nuclear-tests |
| USSR test 2443366 | 440 km NE (38°) | 50.950° N, 110.780° E | nuclear-tests |
| USSR test 2445181 | 683 km NNW (345°) | 53.800° N, 104.140° E | nuclear-tests |
| RIFT | 684 km NNW (345°) | 53.813° N, 104.132° E | nuclear-tests |
Distances are great-circle on a sphere of mean radius 6,371 km; bearings are initial true bearings from the city. Each position is the source catalogue's own, read back from the registry.
Of the 23,251 artificial objects the registry places in Earth orbit on 2026-10-18, 16,068 fly orbits whose ground track reaches 47.908° N, so they can pass directly overhead; the other 7,183 never reach this latitude.
| space station | inclination | can pass overhead |
|---|---|---|
| Bai Xiang | 85.0° | yes |
| International Space Station (+3 docked records) | 51.6° | yes |
| Kosmos-382 | 55.9° | yes |
| Tianhe | 41.5° | no — its track stops at 41.5° |
Computed: an orbit's equatorial inclination bounds the latitudes its track reaches (inclination i, or 180° − i when retrograde), from the orbital elements the registry holds. «Can pass overhead» is geometry, not a schedule — when, and whether it is lit and visible, depends on the hour.
The geostationary belt arcs across the southern sky and stands 35.0° above the horizon due south — the elevation to aim at for a satellite at this city's own longitude. Computed: spherical Earth (equatorial radius 6,378.137 km), circular orbit of one sidereal day (42,164 km); good to a few tenths of a degree.
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